Bill-holder



(No Model) BRAND.

BILLHQLDEB. .Nol 291,339. Patented Janr 1; 1884.

INVENTOR WITNESSES ATTORNEYS.

PATENT FFICE.

PETER HAND, on GLEN, NEW YORK.

BILL-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 291,339, dated January 1, 1884.

Application filed-November 5, 1883. (No model.)

.-the following is a full, clear, and exact de scription.

The object of my invention is to provide a new and improved device for holding bills, advertisements, and other sheets, on which holder the said bills or other sheets can be fastened very readily.

The invention consists in certain details of construction hereinafter described, and specifically set forth in the claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar letters of referenceindicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a front View of my improved bill-holder. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same, parts being broken out and others shown in section. Fig. 3 is a cross-sectional elevation ofthe same on the line mm, Fig. 2, showing it closed and holding bills; and Fig. 4 is a crosssectional elevation of the same on the line as m, Fig. 2, showing it opened.

To a rabbeted strip, A, of molding, a strip, B, is hinged by two short link-pieces, O, pivotedto the upper side of the strip B and to the under side of the rabbet of the strip A. A button or knob, D, is secured on the front of the strip B. Two or more pins or studs, E, project from the strip A below the shoulden or projecting part, and two corresponding apertures, F, are formed in the one side of the strip B.

The bill-holder is held to a wall, desk, post, &c., in some suitable manner--for instance, by hooks and eyes, nails, screws, 85C. The strip B is drawn outward, as shown in Fig. 3, and the upper ends of the. bills G, &c., are placed on the strips A and pressed against the same, so that the pins E pass through the sheets, and are held in place by pressing the stripsB against the upper part of the said sheets. The sheets, 8m, can be secured on the holder very easily and rapidly, and be torn from the same or removed after raising the strip B.

Theholder canbe made of any desired suitable length.

I am aware that it is not new to provide a paper-file or bag-holder with a hinged aper- A under its rabbet and the pins and apertures made to register, substantially as described.

PETER HAND.

Witnesses:

DAVID J. TURNBOUL, I JOHN PUTMAN. 

